Chapter 41: Declining physical fitness
The Chinese team once again celebrated their goal wildly, while Dortmund's youth team was stunned by the second goal.
If they conceded the first goal, they were still not convinced, thinking that if it wasn't for their teammates falling, they wouldn't have lost the ball.
Now, they can't find any excuses.
No one fell to the ground in this conceded goal, and they had no reason to look for it.
So the goal was a big blow to them β they realised that the first goal they conceded wasn't really their bad luck...... Gotze stood at the back of the middle circle, he chased here, symbolically intercepted Zhou Yi, and did not chase back. He also wanted to wait for a counterattack, but he didn't expect to wait for the team's second goal.
The players of the Chinese team flocked to He Ying, who scored the goal, and as the player who scored twice, he was naturally the focus of everyone's attention.
But Gotze's eyes fell on Zhou Yi, who was assisted by He Ying. He had a "contest" with Zhou Yi in the return defense, of course, his defense was symbolic, and Zhou Yi's escape was also very timely, and the two of them didn't even have physical contact, so this contest should be put in double quotation marks.
However, it is precisely because of this "competition" that Ge Ce has a different view of Zhou Yi in his heart.
They are also midfielders, and Gotze can see it very clearly, although this goal was scored by the Chinese team's No. 10, their No. 16 may be the real protagonist of this goal, and it was he who instigated this attack. The move to drill into the middle was clever and bold.
The number 16 has already assisted two goals, and Gotze's teammates can't even do anything about him.
Gotze thinks this person is not simple, is he a player of the Chinese national youth team?
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The people around were celebrating the goal, but Liang Qiqi and Yang Fei were particularly embarrassed, especially Liang Qiqi.
also said before that Zhou Yi's assist was just luck, and the blind cat hit the dead mouse.
Who thought that Zhou Yi would immediately assist another goal, and this goal was also lucky?
Two assists in a row were lucky?
They're afraid they won't believe it.
They sat in silence in their seats, in stark contrast to the elated crowds around them.
At this time, they have forgotten that this is a reality TV show, and there are cameras pointed at them, maybe their out-of-place performance is recorded by the camera?
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After the initial passionate celebration, Hao Dong and Xu Yang had calmed down, and they glanced at each other.
"When you decided to let him start in place of Liang Qiqi, could you imagine that he would give you such an answer?" Xu Yang asked Hao Dong.
When Hao Dong decided to let Zhou Yi start, he was a little worried, but now he is not worried at all.
Zhou Yi may indeed be inferior to Liang Qiqi in terms of technique and body, but his brain is much better than Liang Qiqi, and his ball quotient is high.
As an organisational midfielder, that's the most important quality.
Hao Dong shook his head: "He has surprised me more than once." β
In the finals of the audition, Zhou Yi surprised Hao Dong.
It's like a child who can do miracles.
Now, he is looking forward to what Zhou Yi can achieve in this European trip.
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After the restart, the Chinese teenagers, who had led Dortmund's youth team for the second time, were demoralized, but this time they did not press as often as before, and as a result, the opponent played a counter-attack.
After two consecutive assists for his teammates to score, Zhou Yi's prestige in the midfield has also been greatly improved.
He doesn't even have to take the initiative to raise his hand to ask for the ball, everyone will consciously return the football to him and let him handle the football.
Judging from the field, the Chinese team has a very rare advantage on the field, and they seem to be able to control the ball better than Dortmund.
If you can control the ball, you can control the situation.
What is possession for a team?
It's not someone who keeps the football under their feet all the time, it's about keeping the football under the control of their own players as much as possible.
This kind of scene has not happened once in the previous four games. The Chinese team is no different from a loose set of sand in the midfield, the offense and defense are out of order, it all depends on personal ability, and the personal ability of these players is naturally inferior to the talents who came out of the giant academy, so it is miserable from the scene to the result.
But now the situation has changed dramatically.
Zhou Yi contributed a lot in this.
He was constantly running, receiving, passing, running, receiving, passing and passing in midfield.
Although there is no through ball that can directly threaten the opponent's goal, through his receiving and passing, football is mostly transformed at the feet of Chinese teenagers.
Liang Qiqi, who had been silent for a long time, finally found an outlet for catharsis, he sat on the bench, put his hands around his chest, crossed Erlang's legs and said disdainfully: "Hmph!
There was a period when the Chinese team couldn't find a chance to move forward during the game, so it could only keep falling backwards in the backfield, so some public opinion criticized the Chinese team's backward footing in the backfield as a negative style of play, which was meaningless and a symbol of the backwardness of Chinese football.
Liang Qiqi obviously equated Zhou Yi's inverted foot with the symbol of backwardness.
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In Liang Qiqi's view, Zhou Yi's transmission is only the most basic, and it can't be seen at all.
But off the field, Klopp's eyes are getting brighter and brighter.
What did he see?
Take, for example, the pass between Sixteen and his teammates.
He saw that when No. 16 was receiving the ball from his teammates, he was not staring at his teammates, but looking around, looking like he was distracted, but he wasn't.
He looked left and right, and the head around his neck was swinging like a radar antenna.
He's not like the other players at all, who spend most of their time watching football for fear of losing it if they don't see it for a second.
But the sixteenth didn't.
He spends more time looking at his surroundings and shaking his head from side to side.
While bald-headed, while moving, they were jogging, or pacing, just like walking, seemingly casually came to a place.
This place is a vacant place where there is no one around. There are no teammates of their own, and there are no players from Borussia Dortmund's youth team.
And because Sixteen came over very casually, it didn't attract anyone's attention at all.
Finding time and running short, these are all deliberate for him.
Once he found an opening, he motioned for his teammates to pass the ball to him.
When his teammates pass the football, he still swings his head from side to side to observe the situation around him, especially the situation behind him, he not only swings his head, but also quickly turns around to look.
When he receives the ball, this head swing stops.
He passed the ball faster or slower, but he didn't look at it before passing it, as if he already knew where his teammates would receive his ball, and his pass was around five to ten meters away with few mistakes.
Of course, when he passes the ball, there are almost no Dortmund youth team players to interfere with him and force him, he can pass the football very calmly, and the accuracy rate is naturally high.
This kind of kick reminds Klopp of a person.
The core of the midfield of the Barcelona football team and the Spanish national team, and the strongest brain on the pitch - Xavi.
The same height is not high, but the same stands at the height of the overall situation to coordinate the whole team.
Kind of interesting......
Klopmore squinted his eyes as he rubbed his bearded chin on his stubbled chin.
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It wasn't until the end of the first half that Dortmund's youth team seized their chance to equalise.
It was Gotze who scored the goal, and he also scored twice in this game.
GΓΆtze was a little excited after the equaliser, you must know that when he scored the first goal, he didn't do anything to celebrate, his team-mates came up to celebrate the goal with him, and he didn't have any expression on his face.
At that time, he felt that it was a very easy thing to score in the game against the Chinese team, so why should he celebrate such an easy thing?
But after China took the lead for the second time, I don't think it was going to be an easy big win.
Equalisers became a priority, not a goal like winning a few goals.
So after equalizing again, Gotze was inevitably excited, he waved his fists hard, and deliberately roared loudly at the players of the Chinese team, venting the emotions in his heart.
Despite being equalized before the end of the first half, the Chinese side did not blame the goal for conceding. Because the 2-2 draw in the first half was already the best 45 minutes of the teenagers coming to Europe - with two goals and yet to lose.
After the two sides changed sides in the second half, the Chinese team still played with Dortmund for about ten minutes, and then Dortmund had the upper hand.
After all, the gap in strength between the two sides is still quite large.
The Chinese team's control in the midfield is getting weaker and weaker.
The fundamental reason is that Zhou Yi's physical fitness has declined, and it is declining faster and faster.
He couldn't run, even if he could see the vacancy, but he couldn't run to the vacancy, it was useless to just see.
Borussia Dortmund's youth team took advantage of this opportunity and scored three goals in the next ten minutes to make the score 5-2, not only taking the lead, but also sealing the win.
The fifth game of the Chinese teenagers in Europe will be another defeat.
"It's a pity......" Xu Yang shook his head in the coach's seat and sighed.
When the Chinese team took the lead for the second time, he did have a little fantasy that the Chinese team could beat the proud and light Dortmund youth team and get their first victory in Europe.
But in the end, the difference in strength between the two sides was still shown in the form of scores.
"If Zhou Yi is a child who has been systematically trained in the professional football echelon for ten years, maybe we can win. Hao Dong next to him said. "But he was just a student and he was already doing well, and he couldn't have asked for more. β
"Do you want to replace him?" asked Xu Yang, looking at Zhou Yi, who could only "walk" on the court.
"Nope. Hao Dong shook his head, "How to handle the ball and how to control the game when he is physically exhausted, I think this is also a very valuable experience accumulation for him." β
"As you said, he's just a student, and this kind of experience accumulation doesn't mean much to him, right?" Xu Yang always felt that Hao Dong had a higher standard of requirements and expectations for Zhou Yi, thinking too much and too far.
"I think after these two months of experience and experience in Europe, he probably won't want to continue to be a student, right?" Hao Dong smiled, "unless he doesn't love football." β